Growing Oak for high quality timber

[@bmwoutlander]

This guy is brilliant. That's 500 years of oak wood science in under 5 minutes.

[@inflationstation1]

It’s refreshing to see a forester actually looking to produce quality timber. Being a forester in the UK isn’t about producing timber… its about knowing the grant scheme’s which has incentivised management companies and land owners to plant for the grant money upfront rather than to produce timber and as a result there is a huge problem with overstocking, no pruning, no thinning and timber only suitable for firewood/biomass. The effects are going to be very bad in the next 10 years for softwood as the matured timber from yesteryears has been cut down and the restocking/maintenance from the last 40 years has been done to a very bad standard. The hardwoods have been in a bad way for a lot longer and over 80% of mature hardwoods cut are burnt as firewood.

[@---yu7ff]

Great video. Do you have some content about black locust or the alders? I'm interested in some soil building trees, bonus if they can deal with arid conditions.

[@bambraagroforestryfarm4008]

More to com. We grow 70 timber species.

[@trackmyfuture4797]

Great video

[@finnkelcher5558]

Thats amazing!

[@richardchadwick4028]

Thanks ...

[@therikay]

Love this!!

[@rhysdrummond2294]

Stems per ha. Final crop. ? Awesome trees

[@bambraagroforestryfarm4008]

Shifting to a coppice with standard. My vie is that oaks need to the thinned to about 75st/ha